Based on new research, Robert A. Hill re-charts the intellectual origins of the Harlem Renaissance. Here he traces the genesis back, broadly to Marcus Garvey's Ethiopianism, and, more specifically, to the astonishing impact of the "Egyptian Revival" during the 1920s. Organized as a slide presentation, the lecture examines the convergence of both the Ethiopianist and Egyptological strands as they became embodied in the aesthetic philosophy of Alain Leroy Locke and paintings of Aaron Douglas.

The Seventh Annual W.E.B. DuBois Lecture

Hosted by: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Center for African Studies

In conjunction with: African American Cultural Program, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Department of Anthropology, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Department of History, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program